| Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons | |||||
| Acorn Media (9/8/2008) | |||||
| TV Series / Crime, Mystery, Thriller | |||||
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| David Suchet | Hercule Poirot | |
| Harriet Walter | Miss Bulstroude | |
| Rahi James | Prince Ali | |
| Adam De Ville | Bob Rawlinson | |
| Don Gallagher | Mr. Forbes | |
| Georgie Glen | Mrs Forbes | |
| Georgia Cornick | Patricia Forbes | |
| Carol MacReady | Miss Johnson | |
| Claire Skinner | Miss Rich | |
| Susan Wooldridge | Miss Chadwick | |
| Natasha Little | Ann Shapland | |
| Amara Karan | Princess Shaista | |
| Adam Croasdell | Adam Goodman | |
| Amanda Abbington | Miss Blake | |
| Miranda Raison | Mlle Blanche | |
| Elizabeth Berrington | Miss Springer | |
| Jo Woodcock | Hennifer Sutcliffe | |
| Lois Edmett | Julia Upjohn | |
| Pippa Haywood | Mrs. Upjohn | |
| Jane How | Lady Veronica | |
| Katie Leung | Hsue Tai | |
| Anton Lesser | Inspector Kelsey | |
| Hugh Fraser | Captain Hastings | |
| Pauline Moran | Miss Lemon | |
| Rolf Saxon | Dr. Ames | |
| Olivier Pierre | Henry Schneider | |
| Jon Strickland | Dr. Fosswell | |
| Bill Bailey | Felix Bleibner | |
| Paul Birchard | Rupert Bleibner | |
| Simon Cowell-Parker | Nigel Harper | |
| Grant Thatcher | Sir Guy Willard | |
| Anna Cropper | Lady Willard | |
| Mozaffar Shafeie | Hassan | |
| Peter Reeves | Sir John Willard | |
| Robert Wisdom | Waiter | |
| Richard Bebb | Newsreader |
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| Producer |
Brian Eastman
Dominic Fulford |
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| Writer | Mark Gatiss
Agatha Christie Clive Exton |
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| Cinematography |
Norman Langley
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| Musician |
Christopher Gunning
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Hercule Poirot is called upon to solve a series of mysterious deaths that are centered around the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Sir John Willard died moments after he and a group of archaeologists entered an ancient tomb. The expedition's physician, Dr. Ames, concluded it was a heart attack but soon other members begin to die in mysterious circumstances. One dies of blood poisoning from a relatively mild cut while another dies of tetanus. One member who has returned to New York has taken his own life. Rumors are soon circulating that an Egyptian curse is felling all those who desecrated the ancient tomb. Poirot and Captain Hastings set off for Egypt to determine what is happening and who might be behind it. |
| 1. Cat Among the Pigeons | |
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When the middle-Eastern country of Ramat is over-run by anti-monarchist revolutionaries, the surviving heir to the throne, Princess Shaista, is spirited away to safety in a small girls' school, Meadowbank, which is run by the progressive Miss Bulstrode. However, when the bullying games mistress Miss Springer is found stabbed through the chest with a javelin, it appears that Meadowbank may not be the haven it promised to be. As Poirot assists Inspector Kelsey, they begin to find that some of the staff may not be quite what they appear, a situation which is compounded when another teacher, Mademoiselle Blanche is found dead and Princess Shaista is kidnapped from the school. With the princess' life in peril, and the prized rubies of Ramat missing, it is up to Poirot to discover who is the cat among the pigeons.
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